A Study on the Influence of Community-Based Education on Post-University Workers and Its Time Dependence
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.52731/lir.v004.284Keywords:
University students, community-based education, graduates survey, topic modelAbstract
This study identified the long-term effects of community-based education on a university la-boratory that conducts "community-based education," a form of university education in collab-oration with the local community. Ninety-three graduates from their first to 16th year in the workforce were asked in a descriptive format whether their learning through activities in the community had been useful to them as members of society. A dataset was created from the free-writing responses of graduates and analyzed using the Structural Topic Model (STM). Five topics were extracted. For the graduates of the laboratories surveyed, the usefulness of learning through activities in the region during their university years can be summarized by these five topics. Multiple regression analysis was conducted on these topics, with the proportion of topics as the dependent variable and the number of years since graduation and the degree of involve-ment with the regional community as independent variables. The results showed that Topic 4 was significantly dependent on the number of years since graduation, and Topic 3 also showed a significant trend. In addition, Topics 1 and 3 were significantly dependent on the degree of in-volvement in the community during the respondent’s university years, and Topic 2 showed a significant trend.
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